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Suit over dental floss gives glimpse into inmates’ health care
Is flossing a civil right? Eleven New York prisoners say it is. “We feel that the Westchester County Department of…
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Calorie restriction stories highlight best practices when writing about research
Down crashed one of the great hopes of anti-aging medicine recently with the news that calorie restriction did not lift…
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Tips for finding local stories about Health Policy
Last week, Stacey Singer, of The Palm Beach Post, and I led a workshop on “Ten Local Health Stories” (actually we…
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Coming soon: Three new films about health care
We know of at least three new movies coming out on health care – overtreatment, undertreatment, cost, quality, the uninsured,…
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Effects of ACA’s insurance rate reviews vary based on state
So all those headlines about how the Affordable Care Act’s insurance rate reviews are keeping premium hikes more reasonable and…
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AHCJ launches Web resource about oral health
The Association of Health Care Journalists has rolled out another Core Curriculum topic on its website. “Oral health” is the…
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Patients paying for confusion over prevention vs. treatment under ACA
Under the Affordable Care Act, certain high-value preventive services – such as colonoscopies – are supposed to be free. No co-pay…
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Be ready to cover innovations to prevent elder abuse
Think of a vulnerable older woman whose caregiver empties out her bank account, or a cognitively compromised homebound older man…
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Cohabitation trend among baby boomers has health implications to be explored
You may have seen a flurry of stories late last year noting that divorce rates are rising for baby boomers…
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Aging: Line between mild cognitive impairment, normal aging can seem blurred
As we age, we expect a certain decline in our cognitive abilities. But fairly recently, scientists at the Mayo Clinic…